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Budding historians braved the cold—
—to attend the annual “Gopherbaloo” event held on a frigid January Saturday. More than 300 students and their parents visited Wilson Library to find research support and resources for their History Day projects. Read more »
Pictured above: Students pose with Mooster at Gopherbaloo. Photo by Paula Keller. |
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Illuminating African American history and culture…
…through a $224,450 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. Materials gleaned from 70 collections in Archives & Special Collections department will be digitized and made available online. Read more »
Pictured above: St. Paul Ice Palace design by African American architect Cap Wigington, from the Clarence Wigington Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota. |
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Innovation, impact, sustainability, and advocacy
These four qualities garnered the inaugural ALA’s Newlen-Symons for the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. Learn how »
Pictured above: “GLBT Pride and Justice For All,” 1998, a poster from the GLBT Pride/Twin Cities collection of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. |
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Event highlight: Friends Member Appreciation, featuring Tom Fisher
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Tom Fisher presents "Urban Design and the Changing Face of the Twin Cities." After serving as Dean of the College of Design for 18 years, Fisher is currently Dayton Hudson Land Grant Chair in Urban Design and director of the university’s Metropolitan Design Center.
Sunday, February 28, 2:00 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center
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Pictured above: Tom Fisher
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UPCOMING EVENTS
2015-2016 First Fridays Series
“For the Individual and Common Good”: How Social Welfare Agencies Used Comics to Create Better Citizens, Presented by the Social Welfare History Archives; and
What's So Funny About Being Queer?, Presented by the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies
Friday, February 5, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120
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Our Umbra Search: Bringing Black History Out of the Shadows
Thursday, February 18, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120
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Critical Conversations About Diversity and Justice
Our Somali Neighbors: Learning More about Somali Culture and Community
Friday, February 26, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120
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The Annual Friends of the Libraries Member Appreciation Event, featuring Tom Fisher “Urban Design and the Changing Face of the Twin Cities”
Sunday, February 28
2:00 p.m. Doors open; 2:30 p.m. Program; 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Reception
McNamara Alumni Center, A.I. Johnson Great Room
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Visit our website for more events »
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Exhibit highlight: In Celebration of the Whittington Press
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Celebrating the acquisition of the more recent records of the Whittington Press, an internationally acclaimed letterpress printer located in Gloucestershire, England, this exhibit showcases items from what Governor Elmer L. Andersen heralded as “the outstanding press in the world.” The Libraries is the only repository in North America to hold every single item produced by the Whittington Press.
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February 1 through May 13, 2016
T.R. Anderson Gallery, Wilson Library
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Pictured above: Artwork for the exhibit has been created by Exhibit Designer Darren Terpstra.
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CURRENT EXHIBITS
A Gathering of Flowers: Botanicals in the Age of Climate Change
Through February 28, 2016
Andersen Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Hours & directions
America’s First Gay Marriage
Through April 29, 2016
Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium Gallery
Hours & directions
Bodies and Spirits: Health and the History of Fermentation and Distillation
Through May 31, 2016
Wangensteen Historical Library, 568 Diehl Hall
Hours & directions
Crosscurrents: Harmut Austen and Mary Kim
Through February 14, 2016
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library, 210 Rapson Hall
Hours & directions
In Celebration of the Whittington Press
Through May 13, 2016
Wilson Library, fourth floor, T.R. Anderson Gallery
Hours & directions
Visit our website for upcoming exhibits »
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The Friends of the Libraries is a vibrant group that combines advocacy for the Libraries with an exciting outreach program celebrating a love of books, authors, knowledge, and curiosity.
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